Eugene Jarvis took to the stage at GDC to talk about his 1982 Williams arcade hit Robotron 2084, a 2D shooting game noted for its insanely fast-moving action and chock-a-block busy screens.

Like the other classic arcade games on Xbox Live Arcade, Robotron: 2084 remains true to its arcade roots while including great additions like online scoreboards and multiplayer. If it's not the ...

A big appeal of Ernest Cline’s novel Ready Player One was its reverence toward the pop culture of the 1980s, from movies to video games. As the big-screen Steven Spielberg adaptation inches ...

and the game was a highly-addicting and attractive game for the new platform. I loved Robotron, so seeing the control scheme brought out for the flagship game on the Arcade was great. Then Mutant ...

“When I started playing video games like Robotron, I had no idea there was an industry I could work in. Now it’s an industry that employs hundreds of thousands of people and has huge ...

Michael McWhertor is a journalist with more than 17 years of experience covering video games, technology, movies, TV, and entertainment. The above five-minute run of the game’s first level and a ...

Robotron is a hallmark example - an unforgiving game permeated by an inexplicable addictiveness. There has to be a method to the Robotron madness. The basic game premise and controls are such that ...